Andrea Previtali

Andrea Previtali's The Annunciation, ca. 1508. Note the display of an Oriental carpet.

Andrea Previtali (c. 1480 –1528) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Bergamo. He was a pupil of the painter Giovanni Bellini. In Bergamo, he painted a John the Baptist preaching with other saints (1515) for the church of Santo Spirito; a San Benedetto and other saints for the Cathedral of Bergamo, and a Deposition from the Cross for Sant Andrea. Other works in Accademia Carrara.

References

• Farquhar, Maria (1855). Ralph Nicholson Wornum. ed. Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. Woodfall & Kinder, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on Jun 27, 2006. pp. page 134. http://books.google.com/books?q=intitle:Wornum+intitle:principal+intitle:painters. 

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Date of death	1528
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